I have set up my Thunderbird to use plain text and "interleaved, quote under" style, which is also what the Linux Kernel recommends. By default, it doesn't quote at all. I'm sick of throwing huge chunks of HTML back and forth where any long conversation grows into a formatting mess.

#Email #Thunderbird #Linux #Kernel #PlainText #HTML #Quotes

Here's my (redacted) #PlainTextPlanner schedule from yesterday, in #Obsidian. I love the blending of mindfully entered events/todos with pre-scheduled tasks!

Also, it's super helpful to divide the day into 5 broad time blocks. 06, 09, 12, 15, 18. It gives structure and flexibility, and allows for easy shifting of entries between time blocks.

06 = 6-9 am, 18 = 6-9 pm.

#plainText

@Slufferbeiste @Fritzfischt

At the bottom of one of my posts, I have a plaintext piano tool that displays the notes of any scale in any key you like. I've been using it for practice at the moment, and I think you might find it interesting as well. I paste the diagram in a codeblock in my daily note.

https://geff.re/scales/

#musiciansofmastodon #musictech #plaintext

✨ New blog post ✨

Film/TV bookmarks (chaos resolved)

https://xenodium.com/film-tv-bookmarks-chaos-resolved

#film #movie #movies #tv #tvseries #show #shows #video #videos #plaintext #emacs #orgmode #journelly #ai #llm #claude

I've been chaotically bookmarking things to watch for some time (reddit links, imdb links, movie names, directors, etc.) to an #emacs #org file primarily via Journelly.

The thing is, it's not super practical to browse when I need it. Today, I finally did something about that. A little scripting and LLM help got me my first browsable catalog.

Maybe I'll write this up and also share the film/tv series list. #film #movie #movies #tv #tvseries #show #shows #video #videos #plaintext

I like my new #plaintext habit tracker. In #obsidian I can easily count the tags. It's easy to record both on my PC and on my mobile device. The different lengths allow me to see a visual trend. Even in the text editor.

Just ordered #PlainText #3 by @plain_form
on Exploratory #TypeDesign

featuring Thomas Huot-Marchand, Johanna Drucker, Alex Balgiu or Hélène Marian @helenemarian, Eugénie Bidaut @eugbidaut, Mathis Borel, Gabriele Čepultė, Lucas Descroix, Benjamin Dumond, Mankun Guo, Luther R. Marsh, Laurent Mbaah, Mălin Neamțu @malinneamtzu and Ariel Martín Pérez @tainome

https://text.plain-form.com/en/plaintext

My plugin-free #PlainTextPlanner has a continuous calendar! It's for planning and for navigation. Each month, week, and day is a Markdown link to that section of the file. I love the simplicity and convenience of this! #plainText #obsidian

@astrophoenix @matcha06

Put up a short blog post today answering @ellane 's eight questions about plain text here:

www.thefrugalgamer.net/blog/2026/01/22/questionnaire-plain-text/

#blog #blogger #questionnaire #plaintext #plaintextlife #blogpost #whyplaintext

RE: https://mastodon.social/@matcha06/115933481835852886

Look! Someone has printed out my cute #Markdown #calendar and is using it to mark off days of the year!!

https://ellanew.com/2025/12/30/markdown-calendars-2026

#PlainText

@gumnos @sushee @monospace Same here (not necessarily in the details, but in principle). The robustness, simplicity and durability of #plaintext is of great importance and hard to beat.

@sushee @monospace

and just as (if not more) importantly, open standards.

It's one of the main reasons that just about all my data-files are #plaintext.
• My calendar? in remind(1) format
• My finances? In ledger(1) #plaintextaccounting format
• My todos? in todo.txt format and linked to my ~/.plan
• My notes? just text-file with a bit of light markdown

Tools may come and go, but the data is still accessible with any text-editor and mungable to other formats as needed.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@aleemshaun/115921386408175076

Is there a plain text tool you can’t do without?

“ In theory, no. That’s the beauty of plain text. But I would be sad if I could no longer use iA Writer or Taskpaper.”

Thanks, Aleem! Great post. #PlainText #WhyPlainText

#plaintext #blogpost

https://matchamakes.net/blogposts/qsaboutplaintext

@ellane I couldn't function without the myriad of IOS Shortcuts I use. They put the text into the correct place for me so i don't have to open up different apps and wait for their loading screens. Since speed is one of the best things about the shortcuts just write to a file, and I can open that file from the correct app later. #plaintext #PTPL

#hledger Kontotypen und -namen
https://hledger.org/5-minute-quick-start.html#:~:text=type
#plaintext #accounting #i18n
¹ https://mro.name/b85b8b2

This week: How would you answer these questions posed by plain text guru, Scott Nesbitt? (He no longer maintains his website, sadly.)

Question 7: Is there one tool you can't do without?

Join the fun by tagging your answers #WhyPlainText, and mention me (@ellane)

#PTPL #PlainText

https://miscellaneplans.medium.com/ptpl-192-answer-these-eight-questions-about-your-plain-text-files-3497bc4b6761 (includes blog post link)

I just updated the docs for my One Big Text File (OBTF) journal.
One file.
Plain text.
Chronological.
No apps or productivity theater—just enough structure to let patterns emerge over time. It’s not about doing more. It’s about seeing clearly.
https://christophersherrod.com/obtf/
#plaintext #journaling

@akamran

MuseScore is a wonderful notation program with a graphic interface and a text file interface.

So you can change the text file. See the score. And play the score.

MuseScore is open source and has a music notation website of pieces scored with MuseScore.

https://musescore.org/en

https://musescore.com/

#music #notation #plaintext

Another lovely Journelly review 💛💙❤️

Available on the App Store as always 😊 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/journelly/id6470714669

#journelly #ios #swift #swiftui #org #orgmode #markdown #plaintext #privacy #offline